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foliate   (TTS Sound)

The verb foliate has 5 senses

• foliate -- (hammer into thin flat foils; "foliate metal")


• foliate -- (decorate with leaves)


• foliate -- (coat or back with metal foil; "foliate glass")


• foliate, paginate, page -- (number the pages of a book or manuscript)


• foliate -- (grow leaves; "the tree foliated in Spring")

The adj foliate has 3 senses

• foliate, foliated -- (ornamented with foliage or foils; "foliate tracery"; "a foliated capital")


• foliate -- ((often used as a combining form) having or resembling a leaf or having a specified kind or number of leaves; "`foliate' is combined with the prefix `tri' to form the word `trifoliate'")


• foliate, foliated, foliaceous -- ((especially of metamorphic rock) having thin leaflike layers or strata)